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imp. & p. p. of Reach. Shak.

Obtained; seized. Spenser.

Out of one's senses; distracted; mad. [Obs.] Shak.

Torn asunder; separated. [Obs.] "His greedy throat . . . distraught." Spenser.

Distracted. [Obs.] Spenser.

ng, as by beasts of burden, and the like. A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement. Sir W. Temple.

A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.

A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy. [Obs.] 2 Kings x. 27.

A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).

A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.

The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.

Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.

Extracted; descended. [Obs.] Knowing whence thou art extraught Shak.

Distracted. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged. A vessel of our country richly fraught. Shak. A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences oSouth. Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits. I. Taylor.

Freight; loading; cargo. [Obs.] Shak.

Constituting the freight or cargo. [Obs.] "The fraughting souls within her." Shak.

A draught of air or flow of water setting inward.

imp. & p. p. of Stretch.

Not fraught; not burdened.